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Ancient Artworks and Crocus Genetics Both Support Saffron’s Origin in Early Greece

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2022
Saffron crocus (Crocus sativus) is a male-sterile, triploid flower crop, and source of the spice and colorant saffron. For over three millennia, it was cultivated across the Mediterranean, including ancient Greece, Persia, and other cultures, later ...
Seyyedeh-Sanam Kazemi-Shahandashti   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Studying of Parthian Coins Existing in the Malek Museum of Tehran [PDF]

open access: yesJilvah-i hunar, 2019
The coin is a valid and written document and a tiny rich book and the necessity of recognition and its importance in different aspects is important. A coin is a piece of metal of a certain weight on which the official mark of the state or government ...
A. Azizi Yusefkand, M. Azizi Yusefkand
doaj   +1 more source

Undiversity, inequity, and exclusion in supply chains: The unintended fallout of economic sanctions and consumer boycotts

open access: yesProduction and Operations Management, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Economic sanctions and consumer boycotts are common tools to punish organizations for undesirable behavior and attempt to coerce them to change their actions. However, these tools occasionally spill over beyond the intended recipients and affect guiltless supply chain members, jeopardizing the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion in ...
Timofey Shalpegin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Joseph, Jehoiachin, and Cyrus: On Book Endings, Exoduses and Exiles, and Yehudite/Judean Social Remembering [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In a recent ZAW article, Michael Chan argues that II Reg 25,27-30 alludes to Gen 40-41, and that this allusion provides a hermeneutical key for understanding the purpose of II Reg 25,27-30 in an Enneateuchal context: it points to an imminent exodus, a ...
Ian Wilson
core   +1 more source

Representation of Anahita in archeological documents [PDF]

open access: yesزن در فرهنگ و هنر, 2016
Water has been highly esteemed in ancient Persia. There have been a few deities to preserve and protect water; Anahita was considered the most popular one. We can see Anahita’s popularity and stature by survival of the works of art in ancient Iran.
Behrouz Afkhami   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Horse and the Lion in Achaemenid Persia: Representations of a Duality

open access: yesArts, 2021
This paper explores the ambiguous Persian Achaemenid attitude towards the horse and the lion. It examines the way these animals appear in imperial official presentations, local artifacts throughout the empire and Greek textual representations.
Eran Almagor
doaj   +1 more source

Sacred activism through seva and khidmat: Contextualising management and organisations in South Asia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
What if our actions were imbued with the sacred? What if activism in organisations evokes better local society and responsible global community?
Abbasi   +28 more
core   +1 more source

"Expectation" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Previously in Futures, I discussed a word that we use to form an abstract futures concept: “millennium” [1]. In its most common current usage, “millennium” is an example of a word that provides, and one might even say controls, a future orientation for ...
Junker, Kirk W.
core   +1 more source

Status of Astronomical Symbols in Ancient Iranian Art (from Prehistoric Era to the End of the Achaemenid Period) [PDF]

open access: yesپیکره, 2019
Ancient Iranian astronomers with strong astronomical motives and divine prophecies have always sought to relate celestial phenomena to human behaviors.
Mahtab Mobini, parisa Rezai Marnani
doaj   +1 more source

The Work of Tragic Productions: Towards a New History of Drama as Labor Culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Preliminary analysis of the representation of laborers in Greek tragedy and satyr ...
David Roselli
core   +1 more source

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